Comedy and Culture

iluvatar5150 said:

idk what kind of clubs you're attending, but while you're correct about the set times, IME, everybody is there for raunchy humor, regardless of age. The biggest comedy club near me (cap somewhere around 300 with tables) is in the burbs, has weekend shows around 7:00 and 9:30, and it is absolutely an older crowd. I'd put myself and my usual crew of late 30's/early 40's dads on the younger side of median age. Sam Jay is playing in a few weeks. Kelsey Cook was there a few months ago.

Regarding whether or not conservatives show up to those shows - my buddies brought me to see Jimmy Dore there last year and the place was packed (and he's coming back in a few months). I didn't know who Jimmy Dore was at the time (i have a low bar for accepting invitations), so I was a bit surprised at the whole experience. Conservatives like raunchy humor if it's directed at the "right" people (e.g. Nancy Pelosi, Joe Biden, Anthony Fauci, etc). I mean, "Let's Go Brandon" originated from a profane chant at a supposedly family-friendly NASCAR event.

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Out in the burbs you may find some more of the conservative comedians.

But the two "meccas" of stand-up comedy in the US have traditionally been NYC and LA. (Though I hear the comedy club Rogan opened in Austin, TX is doing some good numbers as are a few others down there, and it's starting to become a "scene" there in Austin)

I don't think NYC comedy clubs, late night, are going to be getting a ton of "stuffy older conservatives" showing up, unless they happen to be there on a weekend getaway to take the Mrs to the big city.


Can't say I've experienced the LA comedy scene, but I have for the NYC one.

At least at the time I was there (which was 2011-2012 if memory serves), I did hit the infamous Cellar that's on MacDougal, the "political comedy" was all seeming to go in one direction back then. The only "politically neutral" one was the night's headliner, Rich Vos, who was the one I wanted to see because I was familiar with him from the old Opie and Anthony radio show which I regularly listened to. A few of the "early" ones in evening were still trying to tell some George W Bush jokes despite him being out of office for a few years at that point "you ever notice how he looks like he's squinting like he's staring at the sun when he's thinking really hard" and another one doing a "conservatives are so uptight about gay people, yet they love wrestling which is just men getting sweaty with each other in speedos"... that kind of corny stuff lol. But Vos's set was good

Landon Caeli said:

I hope to see more led zeppelin, pink Floyd style musicians re-enter the culture after the death of woke. I want our white American outlaws back,

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So you want to see a reemergence of the "American outlaw" style of rock music... by having a rebirth of British Psychedelic rock? lol


Perhaps Iggy Pop, the Ramones, or the MC-5 would've been better examples to use for that